Ambassador Caroline Kennedy held a beautiful reception at the Embassy & toasted our young poets. Here they are posing for the camera & loving getting to know each other. They also performed at the Literary Festival & we got the chance to see Poetry Boxing in action at Tsukuba Elementary. Also got to teach a performance workshop to all the students with the brilliant Renée Watson. Warm-up games, songs, intro silliness & emotional car ride. The poets were awesome!

Keynote poet - Elizabeth Alexander - Praise Song for the Day

Poets from the 2014-15 season. Loved seeing them!!!

Students serving lunch - so cool.

These guys were the DJ set for lunch - seriously. There was music & they were the ones making it happen.